Crowdspring Pro for Agencies

Crowdspring helps agencies do more, in less time, with fewer capital expenses. Hundreds of the world's best small, midsize and large agencies leverage crowdspring to innovate their businesses and increase choice for their clients.

Why do leading agencies choose crowdspring?

Talented designers, lots of choice.

Agencies leverage crowdspring to extend their creative teams and deliver unprecedented choice for their clients and prospects. Over 220,000 talented designers from 195 countries work on crowdspring.

Work you'll love, guaranteed.

Beautiful, professional design that drives results for agencies and their clients. No hidden costs and no suprises. If you're not 100% happy with your design project, we'll promptly refund all your money.

Powerful tools for agencies.

Team collaboration, private galleries and projects, non-disclosure and customized project contracts, unlimited public and/or private focus groups, and white-label presentation sites to help you deliver great results for your clients.

Protection of intellectual property.

Powerful intellectual property protections, made simple. Every project includes industry leading customized, dynamic legal contracts and industry-leading policies and practices that protect the intellectual property delivered in the project.

Grow your agency with beautiful design.

You have the vision, we have the creative.

Growing your agency’s creative business has never been easier. Our creatives, from Australia to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, are standing by to help you. Work with one designer, three designers, or have dozens of designers compete at the same time - it’s up to you. Give your clients and prospects choice that they won't be able to find anywhere else.

For small agencies, everything you need to up your game.

Crowdspring lets smaller agencies level-up against bigger competitors by leveraging a team of over 220,000 talented creatives from around the world. Eliminate the cost and complexity of hiring designers and paying for computers and software. Use crowdspring to generate dozens of design ideas and styles which you can then iterate. This allows you to compete with the deep bench of creative talent at large agencies.

For bigger agencies, the opportunity to innovate your business model.

Agencies are at an inflection point. Clients are cutting costs and demanding more innovation and creativity. Competition is becoming fiercer but resources are becoming more scarce. Crowdspring lets you change the rules. Peel the layers and focus on the things you’re uniquely able to do better than anyone else. Crowdsource the creative to crowdspring.

Pro tools designed for agencies.

Each agency is unique. Our platform allows you to customize projects, assign unique permissions to collaborators, have public or private design galleries, implement search exclusion, customized intellectual property legal agreements, require non-disclosure agreements, launch public or private focus groups, and launch white-label presentation sites where you can share designs with your clients, under your own brand. Everything under one roof, organized, centralized, powerful, and easy to use. Pay as you go. No set up costs, no minimums, and no surprises.

The world's best small, midsize, and large agencies choose crowdspring.

use as a springboard, ideation or even to add to existing work.

For a relatively low cost I can have resources at my disposal that I may never have found were it not for crowdspring. As an agency we could use this as a springboard, ideation or even to add to existing work, The possibilities themselves are just beginning with this global market and talent that are there and is ready.

Chris Miller

SVP, Group Managing Director, DraftFCB

how crowdspring works...

1.Tell us what you need.

Interactive Q&A customized for logo projects.

Flexible pricing for everyone.

Simple (takes just a few minutes) and proven process.

FAQs

Projects run for 7 days, but you can shorten them to as little as 1 day if you're in a hurry. Many entries come in the last few days of a project, and we encourage you to wait until the project ends before picking your favorite (tell us if you want to close the project early). You can extend your project for free, up to 7 more days if you need more time.

Logo design packages start at $299, while projects with a single designer (1-to-1 projects) start at $200. All packages include the award to the designer and crowdspring's fee, a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying, free focus groups, our award-winning customer support, tools and platform. You can select packages and features based on what you need and your budget. You will always know up front exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.

Absolutely! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying. If you have multiple awards, you'll have separate contracts for each. Once the contract is signed and the creative is paid after you approve the final deliverables in your project, you can use the design (or name) any way you like. You can change it or alter it in any way – it's yours.

The non-winning work remains the property of the person who created that work. This means you may not use those other entries (or any portions of them) in any way. But we give you an easy way to add awards and make offers in your projects when you find more than one design (or name) you love.

"I loved working with crowdspring! It was so exciting to watch your project pick up steam as you gave feedback to the creatives. It felt very collaborative and you have so many creative people submitting ideas just for your project. Their system is organized, easy to use and understand. I am so happy with the results!"

Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit

2.Work with our über-talented designers

Multiple designers submit dozens of concepts.

Review, rate, and give feedback.

One price. Pick the design you love.

FAQs

You'll see dozens of designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in the project, the more designs you will get. We'll let you know every time a new design or comment comes in and invite you to give feedback. The more feedback you provide, the more designs you'll receive. Years of experience show us that projects with active clients will receive more than double the designs compared to projects with low client participation.

Absolutely! In fact, this is a key factor for success. Once the designs start rolling in, let the designers know what you think about their designs. You can score and give individual feedback. You can also update your brief if you want to address all participants in your project. They are happy to make changes and iterate on their designs.

When you score each entry (1 to 5 stars), your score and comments are private. Only you and the individual designer will see the star rating and comments on their design. Updates to your brief are public for all participants in the project.

Like more than one logo design? It happens all the time. You can start your project with multiple awards or add awards at any time during your project. You can also make offers on additional designs after your project has been awarded.

"In 10 years I have launched 17 projects on crowdspring and have always been impressed. Crowdspring brings 10 maybe even 100 times more creativity than simply working with a single random creative I could have found outside of crowdspring where I might only see a couple different concepts. And the price is very affordable."

Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor

3.Pick the winning design and finalize the project.

Select the winner.

Make final adjustments.

Receive full rights to the work you purchased.

FAQs for step 3

You have seven days to select your favorite after the project closes. Sometimes, you might need an extra few days. Just let us know when that happens.

Before making the final decision, you may want to run a free focus group. All silver packages in design projects include one free focus group ($29 upgrade to unlimited). All other design packages include unlimited focus groups.

A focus group (also called a "poll") allows you to invite friends, customers, colleagues and anyone else to vote and comment on their favorite designs (you can assign weighted votes or let each vote count equally). Anyone is eligible to vote as long as they have the special voting URL we'll provide to you (they will not need to register an account). Your focus group can be public or private - you choose! You fully control whom you invite to each focus group and what designs are included in each focus group.

In design projects, you'll have a private area to complete the project with the designer you chose. If you have more than one award, you'll have a separate wrap-up with each designer. Each of you will sign the legal contract for the project (giving you full rights once the designer is paid).

You can continue to iterate and request changes in wrap-up to make sure the design is just right. Once you approve the proof files, the designer will create and send final files for your approval. Once you approve the final files, we pay the designer and you own full rights to the work.

In naming projects, you'll sign the contract and confirm the name and that's it - it's yours.

For each project category, we'll recommend required file types and will ask the winning designer to provide you with appropriate final files. You can always request specific formats you or your printer require.

"I just finished my 2nd of 3 projects with crowdspring. The first was an incredible book cover. This new project was artwork for a wooded token. I have a 3rd project on going for the development of a logo for graphic for my wife's jewelry business. I'll summarize - Don't waste your time at other sites - just come to crowdspring.com. The experience, the talent and the result will only make your life easier."

Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services

infinite talent, unlimited choice, boundless collaboration ...

Now we have access to everything we've ever asked for: infinite talent, unlimited choice, boundless collaboration - and all on a budget that we name. This changes everything.

Dennis Ryan

CCO, Element79

High-quality logo design at the right price.

Get a design your clients will love.

Frequently Asked Questions

In the days of Don Draper, things were different. You had your account men and your creatives. You bought and sold stories. Charm was your most valuable currency, and the exchange rate for client dollars was glorious. Not a bad time to be alive, assuming you were a straight white man.

Things have changed a bit since then. Add computers into the marketing mix and supercharge things with the Internet, and suddenly Don’s tendency to slur during afternoon meetings is the least of his problems. It’s no longer SCDP versus CGC, but SCDP versus a number of 3 man boutique shops, recent college grads with undervalued design degrees, and your 64 year old neighbor who taught herself Photoshop between soaps. Pretty stories mean nothing without the numbers to back them up, and those once lofty retainers are scoffed at by companies who hire unpaid interns to manage their social media marketing.

In this brave new world, is it any surprise that people have been proclaiming the ad agency dead for years now?

Obviously, those proclamations aren’t entirely fair. There are still heavy hitters in the agency world, but many of them have struggled to keep pace with innovation driven by the breakneck pace of technological expansion. Even smaller, more nimble agencies have found themselves in a position where managing overhead is a challenge. So while rumors of the ad agency’s demise have been grossly exaggerated, their health isn’t exactly picture perfect, either.

The resulting kerfuffle is benefiting no one. Agencies are spending so much time and so many resources on trying to keep up with the relentless pace of digital innovation that their overhead is ballooning while their revenue is eroding. Companies, in the meantime, are playing Russian roulette with their brands by cobbling together piecemeal marketing through freelancers without any kind of strategic guidance. Everyone loses in that scenario.

That’s where the crowd comes into play.

Maintaining an in-house creative staff is expensive and laborious. With the crowd, you get access to a creative pool many times larger than anything you could tap in-house for a fraction of the cost. While strategic creatives are still necessary to make sure the crowd is effectively utilized, it’s far less expensive to hire one strategist than four designers… forget about 220,000 of them.

The truth is that agencies crowdsourced work long before the word crowdsourcing even existed.

Crowdspring offers a place where work opportunities are consolidated, minimizing time spent sourcing and applying for opportunities through other avenues that may or may not turn out to be legit. Crowdspring also offers more payment and intellectual property security. On top of that, work on crowdspring can open the door to ongoing work with an agency by helping designers build relationships and giving designers a place to park their portfolio.

Companies win big here, too. If an agency works withcrowdspring, they get a chance to consider a much wider array of creative proposals from people who specialize in specific types of projects. That means an agency’s client gets the cutting edge deliverables necessary to perform under the guidance of those who know the game better than anyone else at a far more comfortable price point. No more Russian roulette. Plus, with our industry leading intellectual property agreements, policies and practices, you can trust crowdspring to deliver reat results for you and your clients.

Since 2008, crowdspring has been the top choice for the world's large, midsize and small agencies. We've worked with the likes of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, BBH, FCB, Element79, Shift Communications, and hundreds of other agencies in the United States and around the world.

Our flexible pricing is perfect for agencies of any size. You will know exactly what you will pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.

While agencies can post Silver and Gold projects, most agencies post Elite or Platinum projects in order to work with the best creatives and access pro tools.

Elite projects allow you to work with three of the best designers on crowdspring (those with a reputation of 90 and above), each of whom is paid. Having three designers will give you three different styles and approaches and will minimize the time you spend giving feedback and scoring entries. In the end you will choose the best entry from each of the three designers. The best entry overall should receive the top award and you will acquire the intellectual property rights, and final deliverables, to all three designs.

Platinum projects include all of the pro tools useful for agencies and are open to creatives with a reputation of 80 or above. Because Platinum projects feature higher awards, they attract the best creatives, so you'll see work from the best of the best.

Crowdspring guarantees your satisfaction. There's NO fine-print. We are not happy until you are. Agencies are so thrilled with the designs they receive on crowdspring that we are proud to stand behind the work and make you an unconditional promise.